Why Trump’s 80th Birthday Bash Is So Fully Corrupt

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The UFC event at the White House on Donald Trump’s birthday is “as corrupt a MAGA event as there could possibly be,” a top political commentator alleges.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/david-rothkopf" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/david-rothkopf">David Rothkopf tells https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/the-daily-beast-podcast" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/the-daily-beast-podcast">The Daily Beast Podcast that the president’s 80th birthday occasion, which coincides with Flag Day, should be viewed as a state-sponsored promotion of the mixed martial arts organization, with Paramount also benefiting.

“The last time [Trump] thought that he had a peace deal with Iran, he went to a UFC event in Miami with Marco Rubio.

And here we are again, another peace deal brewing,” Rothkopf, the Daily Beast’s chief global affairs correspondent, told co-host Joanna Coles. “But this thing is different, because it’s incredibly corrupt.”

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